[Ghoser777]

I'm really pumped to see this movie. And I thought I was going to see it today (released in the US on Thursday)... but I can only find one movie theater in downtown Chicago showing it (and I'd rather not drive that far). Does anyone know:

a) if there are any other places showing the Imitation Game in the Chicago suburbs? Or
b) when it's going to be more widely released?

[subego]

I'm not even seeing it in the city itself until December.

[turtle777]

I bet it's already showing on BitTorrent

-t

[Waragainstsleep]

I haven't stumbled across it yet actually.

[turtle777]

Damn slacking pirates.

-t

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by some review

[Harvey Weinstein] knows the math behind the Oscar formula better than anyone. Take one prestige biopic, add a sexy leading man, preferably with a British accent, and divide by World War 2.

[Doc HM]

On the list to see. Only heard good reviews.

We Brits got right cross when the Americans rewrote the story of cracking the enigma code in U571, now we Brits get to gloss over the polish contribution. Yay!
Bendygate Cabbagepatch always worth watching though.

[design219]

They just did a limited release for the awards deadline, but will be full release on Christmas day.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one. Benedict Cumberbarch is an excellent actor (at least I really enjoy his sherlock Holmes on BBC). I've heard some (supposed) experts quibble with the accuracy, but that's typical of any historic based pic. The promos say he invented the first computer which apparently is not exactly accurate.

I didn't know anything about Alan Turing until this movie started promoting, but I'd heard a lot about the German's Enigma machine.

[Ghoser777]

Well, it depends on what you mean by "invented the first computer" I don't think it's that cut and dry.

[Doc HM]

Originally Posted by Ghoser777 

Well, it depends on what you mean by "invented the first computer" I don't think it's that cut and dry.

Well it's fairly cut and dried. Turing was a mathematician not an engineer. He figured out the mathematics of a machine that could be described as a computer. He also helped develop these ideas (along with many others). He saw what computers could be but at that time the electronic computer was very much an idea whose time had come and many brilliant people in many parts of the world were converging on the same goal.

In a nice touch, tommy Flowers, the telecom engineer who physically built Collossus, went to evening glasses and actually gained an "introduction to computing" certificate in the late 90s. I wonder if the teacher had any idea who one of his/her students was.

[unicast reversepath]

The story line of Cryptonomicon (Neil Stephenson) includes a really great fictionalized characterization of Alan Turing, as well as detailed descriptions of modern cryptography, information security, and discussions of prime numbers, modular arithmetic, and Van Eck phreaking.

[Doc HM]

My dads lifelong friend Les was a young engineering apprentice during WW2. Whilst training one of his jobs was to make a batch it weird rotart relay things. Last year I took him and my dad to the museum of computing at Bletchly park wher he was a load of weird rotart relay things in use on the Collossus conputer. He was gi smacked. He had had no idea all this time.
Weird.

[Waragainstsleep]

Heavy night last night Doc?

[mattyb]

He went back to bed me thinks.

[Waragainstsleep]

More Turing:

Watch Breaking the Code, About the Life & Times of Alan Turing (1996) | Open Culture

[subego]

English rotarts are best rotarts.

[Waragainstsleep]

Like pop tarts but cooked on a rotisserie right?

[subego]

Yes... but remember never to go full rotart.